The mods make this a T-bird one that can go straight to a recording studio, without any apologies. Good condition, great neck, no breaks, contemporary hardware, and electronics. There is playing wear, as this instrument was lovingly reliced, by The Utterly Fantastic Super Scientific Wright Guitar Laboratories, providing every nick, gouge, and dent. I begged for these pickups for quite a while, and was delighted when Pat and Bill eventually manufactured them. This brought some of the Jazz bass snap to an all mahogany bass, but you could change it a number of ways right in the control cavity.
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I've opted to get a Jazz bass type sound out of the bass, and have the bridge coils on both pickups wired in series with the noise canceling coil. Besides the manner with which I've wired these pickups, there are a multitude of ways the coils can be refigured, all the way to just like the original wiring. Two active coils, and a noise canceling coil. Especially with the two pickups wired in series. They had no top end, and sounded mushy, but powerful. T-birds pickups from this time were wired in series, and by '79 they had replaced the alnico Ripper like coils in the '76 T-bird, with a more traditional side by side humbuck arrangement, using ceramic magnets. The stock pickups have been replaced with the first Bartolini 4E pickups made. The Stars Guitars products were both from the early 1980's. Just fits in control cavity, and works well with the Bartolini's. This strictly gives you a neutral active output. A Stars Guitars unity gain pre-amp is installed. There's just enough room in this bass for a 9V battery, and a pre-amp. The Stars bridge is not only heavy duty, but corrects all of these issues. It replaces the stock three point bridge that is difficult to adjust, has no individual string height adjustments, is not coupled to the body, and allows the overwrap of the end of the low E-string to pass over the saddle into the speaking length of the string. It is mounted on a footprint matching 1/8" piece of ebony. The stock bridge has been replaced with a Stars Guitars chrome plated, two piece brass bridge. I believe these were the last basses manufactured to fill remaining orders related to Bicentennial T-birds issued in 1976. This is one of 8 sunburst instruments made in 1979. Anyone who's owned, or played one is probably aware of the stock instrument's shortcomings.
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